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Check out 37signals.com and BaseCamp. There are tons of books - a little google searching is in order.

Wow - talk about an optimistic approach to business. I have to say that IMO this is horrible advice. You need a lawyer for equity deals - you'll never convince me otherwise. Your "…

In my experience, elance is not the place for large jobs (and I've tried). I would strongly suggest people not start out w/ a large job on elance and instead start w/ smaller piece…

Since you mention discountasp.net I wanted to say that, for most people, discountasp.net is the most expensive shared hosting you can find. I've been very disappointed w/ the quali…

You could try a post at webmasterworld.com. I have no experience selling but I see those on there from time to time. good luck!

I've done some posting on elance before and I will suggest to start with the smallest job (i.e. cheapest) first to get used to working with bids and vendors. Start with a logo + bu…

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You're probably better off posting this at webmasterworld.com than here.

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Well said - good ideas. I like mobsocial best :)

Dual 22s

I just came across this and wanted to add my thoughts and reach out to the other Dallas startups. 1) Is Dallas a good city for startups? That depends on your involvement/wants/defi…

For ideas I use OneNote ( http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx ). I'm a Windows user and it is part of the Office suite. OneNote is great for bringing order and s…

I'm ENTJ - just like Madonna and Whoopi Goldberg!

sorry but that format is not interesting to me. bullet points, headlines, something needs to be in there for me. just my opinion.

I'm not at all interested in nasa spam here. As per the YC guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

How about these: Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works: http://tinyurl.com/3ftxva Founders at Work: http://tinyurl.com/4cytwa (links are to amazon.com)

egads - he didn't say he wanted to be bored and made to feel like *&$% ;)

You have a decision to make: can you self-insure for the minor costs or not? By "self-insure", I mean can you handle up to $2500 or $5000 per year of health costs if you had to? Yo…

wow - useful content? It's a new day!

I'd budget 3-6 months if you aren't networking w. smart people already. I've tried dice, monster, craigslist and I expect it takes me 150-200 resumes before I get to one interview.…

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Meh. I ran it and it has lots of reported things that are not real problems.

Oh, and BTW - I need someone to do more web stuff such as SEO , SEM, PPC if that matters.

So I'm a solo founder with a somewhat successful software video training startup (http://www.learnitfirst.com/). I've done the gamut from programming to some of the videos and the …